Czech Republic

"Czechs Are Helping" Initiative says number of families willing to house children from Greek refugee camps is rising, Interior Minister unmoved

24.11.2019 9:54  full story

Czech Republic: Romani-occupied residential hotel catches fire, young family loses everything, 12 suffer smoke inhalation

23.11.2019 14:51  full story

Romani rapper Alex Dzurko's new video criticizes "Facebook warriors" and racists, laments social divisions

23.11.2019 13:27  full story

Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes honors Romani activist's work to remove pig farm from Holocaust remembrance site

22.11.2019 9:08  full story

Czech trial begins of brutal, allegedly racially-motivated assault by non-Romani adults on Romani children

21.11.2019 7:44  full story

Květoslava Podhradská: Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution as seen by an ordinary Romani woman

20.11.2019 13:03  full story

Patrik Banga: Internet violence should be punished with prison

19.11.2019 9:40  full story

videoGipsy.cz's new video calls on adults and children to put down their phones and go outside together

18.11.2019 9:16  full story

videoThirty years of freedom: Roma in the Czech Republic wanted totalitarianism to end, value the chance to do business, lament antigypsyism

17.11.2019 8:20  full story

International Romani Language Day celebrated with readings in six Czech cities

10.11.2019 9:12  full story

Czech Regional Court returns online hate speech case about death threats against first-graders to lower court, more evidence needed

8.11.2019 7:29  full story

Michal Mižigár: What democracy brought us Romani people in the Czech Republic in the 1990s

6.11.2019 5:49  full story

Czech ombudswoman: Haters online frequently refuse to admit to themselves that they could be breaking the law

5.11.2019 5:54  full story

In future, Czech quarterly reports on extremism may mention only settled cases, not ones in progress

4.11.2019 8:18  full story

The Romani Uprising in Auschwitz, 16 May 1944

16.5.2019 9:01 On 16 May 1944, in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, something completely extraordinary occurred: Romani people imprisoned in the so-called "Gypsy Camp" there rebelled against the SS. This historical event is still almost unknown in the Czech Republic, but 16 May is becoming more and more popular worldwide as Romani Resistance Day.  full story

The Romani Uprising in Auschwitz, 16 May 1944

16.5.2018 0:01 On 16 May 1944, in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, something completely extraordinary occurred: Romani people imprisoned in the so-called "Gypsy Camp" there rebelled against the SS. This historical event is still almost unknown in the Czech Republic, but 16 May is becoming more and more popular worldwide as Romani Resistance Day.  full story

Roma and Sinti Genocide Survivors, Descendants and Scholars Unite in Prague

26.9.2017 10:30 Roma and Sinti Genocide Survivors, Descendants and Scholars Unite in Prague By Clare Profous.  full story

The Romani Uprising in Auschwitz, 16 May 1944

16.5.2017 0:01 On 16 May 1944, in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, something completely extraordinary occurred: Romani people imprisoned in the so-called "Gypsy Camp" there rebelled against the SS. This historical event is still almost unknown in the Czech Republic, but 16 May is becoming more and more popular worldwide as Romani Resistance Day.  full story

Czech Police liaisons to minority communities and Regional Coordinators for Romani Affairs discuss collaborating

9.4.2017 16:22 The Czech Interior Ministry, in cooperation with the Office of the Czech Government Council for Romani Minority Affairs, recently held a three-day working meeting between Czech Police liaisons to minority communities, Regional Coordinators for Romani Affairs, and Regional Crime Prevention Managers. The aim of the meeting was to assess the existing ways in which these three kinds of officials collaborate, to present examples of good practice in the area of cooperation at regional level, to present their plans for activity this year and, through discussions, to state proposals and recommendations for intensifying cooperation among these partners.  full story

Czech Republic: Prestigious literary award goes to book some commentators and Romani people find offensive

9.4.2017 15:27 The 16th annual Magnesia Litera book award announced its winners last week. In the newly-revived category for journalism, the award has been given to the book called BRNOX, a guidebook to the neighborhood in Brno nicknamed the "Bronx" that purports to be about that socially excluded locality.  full story